Hands Up

2021
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

2.7/10

201

YOUR RATING

After his cousin is shot and killed by a white police officer in Chicago and Black Lives Matter protests spread across the city, a black inner city teen desperately fights for a way out of the most notorious murder capital of America.

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After his cousin is shot and killed by a white police officer in Chicago and Black Lives Matter protests spread across the city, a black inner city teen desperately fights for a way out of t... Read allAfter his cousin is shot and killed by a white police officer in Chicago and Black Lives Matter protests spread across the city, a black inner city teen desperately fights for a way out of the most notorious murder capital of America.After his cousin is shot and killed by a white police officer in Chicago and Black Lives Matter protests spread across the city, a black inner city teen desperately fights for a way out of the most notorious murder capital of America.

Director
- Chuck Whitman
Writers
- Robert Kreiling
- Chuck Whitman
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IMDb RATING

2.7/10

201

YOUR RATING

Director
- Chuck Whitman
Writers
- Robert Kreiling
- Chuck Whitman
Stars

13User reviews

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1tracicoleman-04746

Not worth the time

I was expecting the movie to be about Black Lives Matter movement based off of the shooting of Mike Brown. Was I highly disappointed? Yes, yes I was. The movie didn't line up with the title. Very amateur directing and acting. Not worth the watch.

10cheree_harris

Great Film

This was a great film. The acting was good and it featured a lot of real locations throughout the west side that made it very realistic. I will definitely watch it again. I'm glad I brought it instead of renting it!

1MovieCriticOnline

Naw ahh to the hell naw

This movie is pure fantasy propaganda. Besides the acting, directing etc being beyond horrible, none of this ever happened in real life.

From the tired stock footage in the opening to the wooden over the top bad acting you can easily skip this mess.

2joshhankins

Revisionist History

What did I just watch? I lived in Chicago during the blm riots and this ain't it.

Three times during the Summer of Peace my South Loop neighborhood was attacked by blm rioters. The third time was in August over a lie. BLM activist said an unarmed black youth was killed by the cops. He was 18, wasn't killed, and had a gun. That didn't stop the criminals from attacking our hood for a third time.

The national guard also protected my neighborhood for two weeks. I had to show ID to just drive home from work.

Movies like this pretend the criminals are the victims. It's disgusting and is played out so amateurish.

1iamjamalwhite

did not age well

The topic and quality of this film are bad. This is a B movie at best, more like a high school play. The acting is bad, direction is amateur, plot is by crayons. Just as study after study shows, the hands up narrative used by Michael Brown is fake. If you remember, the title of the movie is taken from that case where a dozen witnesses said he had his hands up and was begging for his life when he was shot by the cop. At trial, they all recanted. Turns out he had just committed another felony and had assaulted the cop and tried to take his weapon when he was shot. This movie is that silliness played out on the big screen but with the lie intact. Skip it.